Question 1
After the communists gained control of China in 1949,
A) the United States repudiated the leadership of Jiang Jieshi.
B) staunch anti-communists accused President Truman of losing China to the communists.
C) most Americans recognized that their triumph resulted from a long internal conflict within that country.
D) Secretary of State Dean Acheson claimed that the United States could have prevented the communist takeover.
Question 2
The leader who led the Chinese communists to control of the Chinese mainland in 1949 was
A) Mao Zedong.
B) Zhou Enlai.
C) Jiang Jieshi.
D) Deng Xiaoping.
Question 3
In 1950, the National Security Council, in document NSC-68,
A) urged cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
B) rejected the Truman Doctrine.
C) considered good faith negotiations with the Soviet Union useless.
D) called for unilateral disarmament by the United States.
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